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Rand Paul: Absolutely. It is the content. But it is because there has been no input. ObamaCare is 100 percent the President's bill…

On the recordSeptember 24, 2013
Absolutely. It is the content. But it is because there has been no input. ObamaCare is 100 percent the President's bill, 100 percent the work of the Democrats, with no input from our side. I think people actually do--when you go home, they do want to establish dialogue. They do want us to work together a little bit. There has been no working together on ObamaCare. It is theirs. The President got it exactly wrong the other day. It is hard to inform the people this way. He said: Republicans want 100 percent of what they want or they are going to shut down government. I think it is the opposite. He wants 100 percent of what he wants. He doesn't want any compromise. We have a bill before us. There is a discussion about ObamaCare. Why not? Nearly 80 percent of us voted and said the medical devices tax is going to be a disaster for innovation in the medical industry. It is a bad piece of this bill. We should repeal it. Why not have a vote on that? To my understanding there will be no vote on any amendments to make ObamaCare any better. Mr. McCONNELL. The President himself seems to be kind of conceding that some things aren't working out well. He decided to delay the employer mandate for a year. Apparently, he has been meeting with some of his union allies to figure out what he can try to do for them. I believe the 100 percent view of the Republicans is that if we are going to have a delay for business, why not have a delay for everybody?…
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Rand Paul
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Sep 24, 2013

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